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• Adrianus Cornelis LANDA, Schoondijke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aalbert Schimmel Jr, Scherpenzeel
• Adriana Pietersdr Versluijs, Fijnaart, Moerdijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1918)
• Antonius Cornelis Aloisius SEGERS, Roosendaal,,PAYS BAS († 1948)
• Anne Kornelis Gros, Marrum († 1951)
• Anne Kornelisz Gros, Marrum, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1951)
• Lenaerts Maria Catharina, Meerle, Antwerpen, België († 1940)
• Achiel Bulcke, Merkem, Belgique († 1946)
• Adrianus Cornelis Landa, Schoondijke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1943)
• Alexander Arnoldus Riedel, Heerhugowaard († 1911)

• Aart Arkenbout (0), Nieuwenhoorn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Hermanus Slotboom (61), Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aaltjen Sluiterij (20), Harfsen
• Abraham Emanuel De Raaij (55), Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Maria van den Bosch (33), Baardwijk
• Bernardus Verbeek (38), Utrecht
• Adrianus Franciscus Boeykens (0), Wilmarsdonk
• Abraham (Abraham Emanuel) de Raaij (Raay) (55), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Slotboom (61), Utrecht
• Arnoldus-Hermannus Slotboom (61), Utrecht, Nederland

• 1851 » George Turner, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Victoria († 1916)
• 1856 » Thomas Anstey Guthrie, English journalist and author († 1934)
• 1857 » Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer († 1944)
• 1866 » Matthew Henson, American explorer († 1955)
• 1874 » Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, President of the Board of Trade († 1948)
• 1875 » Arthur Bernardes, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 12th President of Brazil († 1955)
• 1876 » Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute († 1929)
• 1879 » Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous († 1950)
• 1879 » Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general and politician († 1919)
• 1880 » Earle Page, Australian lawyer, academic, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia († 1961)

• 1827 » George Canning, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1828 » Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist and psychologist (b. 1743)
• 1858 » Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Haitian Empress (b. 1758)
• 1863 » Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Gerardus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Trijntje
15. Elizabeth
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
• April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
• April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
• May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
• June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
• December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The temperature on August 8, 1865 was about 17.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.